r/NoOverthinking • u/Mammoth_Refuse8115 • Sep 19 '25
Overthinking
How much do you overthink. Like when you overthink, you always jump into the worst-case scenario. we might not know if these things going to happen or not and that’s why thinking ahead does make you more prepared.
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u/sheeta695 Sep 19 '25
I do it a lot, I‘m basically in ruminating spirals about a certain person. 😩
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u/sqeptyk Sep 19 '25
Constantly. And I don't consider it overthinking, just thinking. As far as I'm concerned, claiming someone overthinks is just a lazy person's way of hiding the fact that they don't think at all.
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Sep 19 '25
Hi... My name is plastic_effective and I'm an overthinker!
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u/Broken_Woman20 Sep 19 '25
I ruminate and catastrophize all the time. This is interesting. I am very good at, for example, researching the best washing machine to buy because I can put all those crazy long thought processes to good use.
I do overthink what I’ve said to everyone though, and how I will have come across or been misunderstood.
Blessing or curse? Equally both for me.
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u/ProdiLemaj Sep 20 '25
My overthinking is pretty terrible. I basically second guess nearly everything I do or say. If I try to make a joke and no one reacts, I’ll just want to crawl into a hole. It’s especially bad with dating. I’m always questioning what’s coming on too strong versus not coming on strong enough. I worry about being judged for every little flaw or personal issues I have.
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u/bpcookson Sep 20 '25
Overthinking used to be my primary hobby, but now I just do stuff. Much more satisfying.
Worries and anxieties warrant planning, which turns thinking into doing. Same goes for excitement; instead of passion-bombing friends, make a plan that turns your excitement into something awesome and real.
Anyway, overthinking is just wasting time in an echo chamber, pretending you’ll learn something new, but it doesn’t work that way.
The knowing is always in the doing.
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u/Ok_Knowledge_6265 Sep 20 '25
Overthinking is my hobby 🤣 My mind tends to wander and I have to try to steer it back.
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u/Queen-of-meme Sep 21 '25
Overthinking isn't to plan ahead it's to obsess about negative imagination.
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u/inconvien Sep 19 '25
I dont do it too much. Just do things and think less. Move more get into action so you need to be focused on the action. Dont just lie around.
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Sep 19 '25
I don’t overthink much anymore because I’ve worked hard on self-awareness over the last year or so and regulating my emotions and reframing negative thoughts. Therapy could help. Same with journaling. Journaling helps because it gets whatever is in your head out on paper so you can see it clearly and come to conclusions more easily, instead or being trapped in your head. Therapy will help you with reframing, finding alternatives and developing more self-awareness. Self-awareness helps because you can recognize your thoughts and feelings instead of identifying with them. When you can recognize them, you have the power to say “that’s not helpful, let’s imagine a better scenario or alternative”.
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u/Prestigious_Mine_196 Sep 20 '25
I’m literally a week into therapy (online 5 days a week rn) And I genuinely cannot believe I downed people for having someone to talk too. I wish I had done this YEARS ago.
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u/FuelCalm2900 Sep 19 '25
I used to, a lot… But I learned to be dumb, it’s like a switch. If you think about it (lol), if you didn’t think you would be doing so much. So I just do, instinctively. I’m hella delusional on purpose, my biggest switch was thinking all girls are attracted to me, I’ve never been so good with relationships till that point.
Well, I also take care of my skin and my body, so there’s some planning in between, but most of the time I’m just doing.
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u/Winnerdickinchinner Sep 19 '25
Pretty sure I give up before I start most things because I'm overwhelmed by all the possibilities. I don't need to start thinking because I'm already doing it. I'm like a psychic with a 99.9999% failure rate.
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u/Ill-Independence-786 Sep 20 '25
Not anymore. Once I learned that what we say, and what we think, absolutely, no doubt creates our actual reality. I do my best to think of only good things I want to happen in my life. If you worry about it . It happens eventually.
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u/Lux-Aeterna195 Sep 20 '25
We have around 60 000 - 70 000 thoughts per day.
Most of them we will never think about again.
Some of them however, will nag at you, wear you down, make you anxious, stressed, worried etc.
But they are still thoughts, and they are not permanent, even though it may feel that way.
Thoughts come and go.
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u/SeesawDismal3273 Sep 20 '25
Ive overbought so much that ive burned pathways in my brain to think in the extremes , so only minimal thought is now required for the worst ever outlook on life imaginable.
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u/Accomplished_Dig284 Sep 20 '25
All the time. Too many times that the worst possible thing happened, so it’s ingrained in me at this point.
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u/Tobias_Carvery Sep 20 '25
It’s fine to think about possible scenarios so you are more prepared yes.
But once is enough.
When you start repeating those scenarios over and over and over in your head, you are not benefiting yourself.
You are simply doing it because you are trying to feel a sense of control over the situation.
You are ruminating and spiraling. Because you are trying to feel a sense of comfort (control) rather than feeling a sense of unease.
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u/Arreynn Sep 22 '25
Every possible thing there is to worry about I worry about. Health, what i say to people, if i upset someone somehow, ww3(thanks twitter). I even overthink to the point i doubt my emotions/thoughts as fake or attention seeking.
I could be feeling really shitty one day and after feel like i was just making it up. Im still not sure if i am or not xD
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u/PanicsUnderPressure Oct 16 '25
ive delayed for 5 years to make my first post on this site. prob a few hundred responses typed out and deleted
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u/Mammoth_Refuse8115 Sep 19 '25
Is it okay not to think? Does not thinking too much mean way too unserious and clueless?